PASSIONATE ABOUT LEICESTER STORIES & HISTORY?  

Volunteer for Typewritten Tales! 

BECOME AN ORAL HISTORIAN & LEARN THE HIDDEN STORY OF LEICESTER’S HISTORIC TYPEWRITER STRIKE

Typewritten Tales is an Arts Council supported Oral History Project about the 1974 Typewriter Strike at Imperial Co. on East Park Road. Participants will learn to conduct interviews with former factory workers. These oral histories will form the inspiration for a dynamic series of local flash fiction events called Typewritten Tales and will culminate in a chapbook publication in partnership with the University of Leicester.

The project kicks off with an Oral History Collection training session led by the University of Leicester’s Oral Historian Colin Hyde. Colin runs the East Midlands Oral Histories Archive and will be training brand new oral historians on October 17th 1-4pm in The Seminar Room 3-5 Salisbury Road. You’ll learn about life on the factory floor, race relations in 70s Leicester, and how the strike affected workers from the city’s settled working class community and newly arrived immigrant workers. We welcome a diverse pool of applicants! 

PRE-BOOK this FREE Oral History training with Colin Hyde by emailing typewrittentalesproject@gmail.com